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by Heather Quarles
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Fifteen-year-old Katherine fights to keep her family from crumbling as her alcoholic mother retreats, her siblings starve, and her youngest sister dangerously blurs the line between Narnia and their harsh reality.
by Virginia Woolf
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A solitary woman wanders London's streets, each encounter a brief look into a human life, each observation a detail in the urban scene.
by E.J. Mellow
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After a lightning strike, a woman's dreamless sleep becomes a nightly portal to a star-dusted realm where she wields a power of creation alongside a stranger, blurring the lines between her waking life and a world she wants to believe is real.
by Knut Hamsun
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An isolated hunter's passionate, doomed relationship with a merchant's daughter unfolds as a tragic story of misunderstanding and desire in the northern wilderness.
by Wallace Shawn
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A traveler in a poor land realizes their comfort depends on the suffering they see, which makes them rethink ethical living.
by Rebekah Crane
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A high school junior, always 'nice' to please her controlling mother and small town, finds her world falling apart and her true self emerging when she falls for the new girl, who has a punk edge and dangerous secrets.
by Shlomo Sand
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Shlomo Sand shows how 19th-century Evangelical Protestants and Jewish Zionists created the 'Land of Israel,' arguing that this invention, meant to secure the Jewish state, now threatens its survival.
by Larry Huntsperger
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Follow Simon Peter, the fisherman, as he recounts his journey with Jesus, from his initial reluctance to his role as a leader in early Christianity.
by Makoto Shinkai
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In a Tokyo always raining, a runaway boy and an orphan girl who controls the weather must choose between a sunny paradise and the irreversible cost of her power.
by I.W. Gregorio
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When a Chinese-American teen's family restaurant faces closure, she teams up with a charming white classmate, sparking an unexpected romance that challenges cultural expectations and their fight to save her family's legacy.
by Sue Baier
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Trapped within a paralyzed body, a woman navigates the dehumanizing and heroic realities of long-term care, her only voice found in the flicker of her eyes as she battles for recovery.
by Thomas Fahy
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Five years after escaping a cult, six teens are hunted by a prophecy, each facing their deepest fear as a premonition of death comes true.
by Joan Wolf
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A baron, desperate for his inheritance, proposes a fake marriage to his childhood friend. Their pretend love becomes real.
by Maria Boyd
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After mooning the girls' bus, a rebellious guitarist joins a school musical, finding unexpected friendships, a charming leading lady, and his true self amidst a 1920s-themed production.
by Kenneth Thomas
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To dismantle a galactic council and its Space Army, VanWest must unearth Mars's buried secrets and rally Earth's forces, only to discover a shocking twist rooted in his own shadowed past.
by Joel Garreau
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Garreau breaks down conventional maps, showing a continent split into nine distinct 'nations,' each with its own capital, economy, and outlook, ignoring political borders.
by Kristen Middleton
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As an encroaching darkness threatens to consume the world, a desperate search for loved ones intertwines with a perilous race to protect the chosen child from two converging evils bent on humanity's annihilation.
by Kitty Neale
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Trapped by poverty and a brutal marriage, Emma transforms herself into a formidable businesswoman, only to find her past debts demand a deadly reckoning on the mean streets of South London.
by Donald Harington
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In the isolated Ozark village of Stay More, a botched abduction inadvertently creates a strange, yet peaceful, new world for its inhabitants.
by Caroline Lee
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In a town where magic subtly intertwines with the Wild West, a desperate mail-order bride, fleeing a shadowed past, arrives to marry a doctor with a hidden identity, only to find herself entangled in a meddling godmothers' plot and a love story that challenges her dreams of a medical partnership and a 'happily ever after'.
by James Chalk
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Exiled and enhanced, Jonathan Harkon brawls through Sanctity's grimy, sex-slave underworld, risking his life and his identity to expose the colony's horrific 'Meat Market' before he becomes its next commodity.
by Daishu Ma
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In a colorless city, a boy follows a glowing leaf on a silent journey to uncover hidden truths and reignite life.
by Joey W. Hill
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Mark, an online Dominant, finds his virtual world shattered when a woman on a ferry awakens his real-world Master, forcing him to face his anger for a chance at a future with her.
by Karina Cooper
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In steampunk Victorian London, a defiant socialite hunts a killer and an alchemical secret while navigating a dangerous dance between a seductive ringmaster and an insistent earl, all vying for her heart and her future.